Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:57:19 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Calculate the time of last modification of a file Message-ID: <20061228115719.GE80999@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <20061227165444.GA46391@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20061227155317.GC95520@ns2.wananchi.com> <20061227165444.GA46391@dan.emsphone.com>
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* On 27/12/06 10:54 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
| In the last episode (Dec 27), Odhiambo Washington said:
| > I am trying to determine the time of last modification of a file, on
| > FreeBSD.
| >
| > The following code achieves the same on Linux:
| >
| > # AGE = (current time) - (time of last modification of "$FILE")
| > # please check your systems 'stat' command!
| > AGE=$(($(date +%s) - $(stat -c '%Y' "$FILE")))
| >
| > test $AGE -lt $DELAY && {
| > echo -n yes
| > exit 0
| > }
|
| You can use "stat -f '%m' $FILE", which is identical to Linux's
| "stat -c '%Y' $FILE" .
Bang!
Thank you so much, Dan!
Best regards,
Odhiambo Washington
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